BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Bloomsburg University men's soccer continued its hot start to the season as they rolled past Shippensburg, 3-0, in both teams' Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) East opener, Thursday. With the win, the Huskies improved to 5-0 for the year and 1-0 in conference play while the Raiders dropped to 0-1-2 on the season and 0-1 in the PSAC East.
 
After the game was postponed due to severe thunderstorms the night before, the Huskies got the action going early in the first half. BU was awarded a corner kick at the 9:48 mark and graduated student Olly Whitham (Clitheroe, Lancashire, England/Settle College) placed the ball perfectly into the crowd in front of the net. Senior Mackenzie Fairs (Uckfield, England/Palmyra Area) got his right foot on the ball and put it under the keeper to give Bloomsburg a 1-0 lead.
 
Just about two minutes later, the Huskies had another scoring chance but Raiders' keeper Cody Willoughby just got his hand on sophomore Sammy Ames' (Holly Ridge, N.C./Dixon) 18-yard shot and punched it over the cross bar.
 
Sophomore Alex Wilsterman (Orefield, Pa./Parkland) gave the Huskies a 2-0 lead in the 29^th minute with his third goal of the season. As the Huskies were attacking, freshman Anthony Schlee (/) kept the ball in play and one-timed it to Ames who got it along to Wilsterman as he was charging toward the net. Wilsterman finished off the shot as he slid a hard shot under the diving keeper for the 2-0 lead in the 29^th minute.
 
The Huskies took the 2-0 lead into halftime.
 
The 15-minute intermission didn't cool off the Huskies as Schlee pushed the BU lead to 3-0 just over six minutes into play. Graduate student Kacper Grycel (Allentown, Pa./Emmaus) headed down a goal kick just by midfield and Schlee buried a 25-yard shot for his second goal of the season.
 
Senior Nathan Slotnick (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) faced his toughest assignment of the afternoon as the Raiders were awarded a penalty kick in the 61^st minute. Slotnick was up to the task and knocked away the PK attempt to preserve his shutout.
 
Shippensburg got the final shot of the game off with just over eight minutes to play but Slotnick once again turned away the scoring attempt for his first shutout of the season.
 
The Huskies and Raiders were tied with seven shots apiece, though the Raiders held a slight 5-4 advantage in corner kicks.

Slotick finished with a pair of saves while Willoughby made one save in the loss for Shippensburg.
 
The Huskies look to continue their early season success as they travel to Shepherdstown, W. Va. on Saturday to face off against the Shepherd Rams at 3:30 PM.